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Postdocs
Dr. rer. nat. Sundar Hengoju
Droplet microfluidics for medical microbiome investigations
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Bio Pilot Plant
Dr. Marlene Höller
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication
Dr. rer. nat. Xiu Jia
When the river meets the sea: how microbial communities adapt to biotic and abiotic changes after community coalescence
Friedrich Schiller University
Viral Ecology and Omics
Dr. Sophie Jin
Bioprospecting the moss microbiome for natural product discovery using genome mining
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Junior Group Metabolomics-guided Natural Product Discovery
Dr. Sophie Meret Jünger
Sophie.Meret.Juenger@leibniz-hki.de
Discovery of metallophores from moss-associated bacteria
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Junior Group Metabolomics-guided Natural Product Discovery
Dr. rer. nat. Nicolai Kallscheuer
nicolai.kallscheuer@uni-jena.de
Construction of novel tools for the genetic manipulation of planctomycetes
Friedrich Schiller University
Microbial Interactions
Dr. Dhruv Khatri
Developing Image Analysis Pipelines for Quantitative Microscopy
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Dr. rer. nat. Varada Khot
Evolutionary transitions of generalist and specialist bacteria across the microbial tree of life
Friedrich Schiller University
Viral Ecology and Omics
PhD Burak Kizil
Microbial Molecules and Community Changes as Mediators of the Gut-Brain Immunomodulatory Axis
Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI)
Microbiome in Stroke and Aging
Dr. rer. nat. Nilay Köse-Vogel
nilay.koese-vogel@leibniz-fli.de
Improving Gut Barrier Function in Mice with SEAL-1
Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI)
Stress Tolerance and Homeostasis
Dr. rer. nat. Sebastian Krautwurst
sebastian.krautwurst@uni-jena.de
ArtRNA – Artificial RNA regulators to probe, control, and design gene regulatory networks in bacteria
Friedrich Schiller University
General Microbiology
Dr. rer. nat. Shyam Krishnan
Effects of lymphomas on susceptibility to invasive mycoses
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Microbial Immunology
Dr. rer. nat. Alina Kuzembayeva
alina.kuzembayeva@leibniz-hki.de
SynThera: Synthetic therapeutic microbes for tailored antimicrobial therapies
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Bio Pilot Plant
Dr. Cameron Lee-Lopez
Establishment and application of automated high-throughput chemoproteomic workflows for probing the human gut microbiota
Institute for Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry
Friedrich-Schiller University Jena
Dr. Feiyi Lei
Discovering the chemical space of bioactive modified nucleotides
Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI)
Host-Microbiome Metabolism in Aging
Dr. rer. nat. Gabriel Lencioni Lovate
gabriel.lencioni.lovate@uni-jena.de
Genome-resolved Analysis of antibiotic production and resistance in microbial communities
Friedrich Schiller University
Matthias Schleiden Institute - Bioinformatics
Dr. Siqi Liu
Coevolution of Microbes and Phages in Aging Hosts
Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI)
Friedrich Schiller University, Medical Faculty
Dr. rer. nat. José Luis López Arcondo
jose.lopez.arcondo@uni-jena.de
Microbiome interactions and communication in the rhizosphere
Friedrich Schiller University
Viral Ecology and Omics
Dr. rer. nat. Jing Lu
The Microbiome–Senescence Axis: Mapping Microbe‑Driven Modulation of Cellular Senescence
Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI)
AI in Microbiome and Aging Research
Edward Marschall
Synthetic Platform for Microverse Signals
Friedrich Schiller University
Organic Synthesis and Bioorganic Chemistry
